New Leaf Social Work

03/12/2025

Meet Kevin (he/him) from 🐶

Kevin is the reason this market stall social enterprise exists. He's the supporter of all supporters. I used to run every idea past him when I worked in his presence and he was so keen and really encouraged me to get it going. He also helped us start it up by giving us our first $ to make a joint product and cover the cost of our first marketstall 😭😇😇😇

Now he's started his own business and he'll be at our marketstall selling this coffee beans! Kevin is the calmest, most good vibes dad energy adult ever. So let's put our support behind him as much as he has done with us this year 💗💗🌱

Friday marketstall, 4-6pm.

02/12/2025

Our support groups are all online and bring together carers from around Australia. Whether your loved one has a diagnosis, or you are concerned about their behaviours around food and/or their appearance, our support groups can help you care for your loved one.

02/12/2025

Meet Will (he/him) from Monster Cookies who makes the most DIVINE NYC cookies ever. He even makes vegan ones which is so dangerous because now I know what they taste like and nothing I've eaten since has ever come close 😭🙏

He will be selling his magical cookies at our marketstall on Friday from 4-6pm. If you want to pre-order a certain number, please reach out because I've been asked this many times before and I've never been organised enough to sort it out.

Will is an amazinly talented writer. He's going to write an indie bestseller one day and he better think of us when he's famous. He loves arts, so-called spinning plastic discs (records), Rimbaud, Gregg Araki, and everything else that is too highbrow for us lowly folk but that makes us smarter and more wise when he talks about it!!!!! Oh, when he grows up, he wants to be a psychologist but he said most importantly, he loves to bake 😊

02/12/2025

Here's to celebrating the moment with the people in it. I really hope you never wait for "the right time" to show people you care/tell people how much they mean to you/tell sh*tty people to get lost/step into your power/stop asking people to meet you at the depths they can't even meet themselves, because the right time is always now 😊🌱

01/12/2025

It's been a dream getting to make this happen with Dan!

Our first session is full. Bookings for next week will open on Thursday.
So excited for our adventurers to discover all kinds of monsters and traps!

Huge thanks to New Leaf Social Work for being super awesomes!

01/12/2025

Three q***r reads to make up for the lack of a book a day recently. Which one will be yours?

$32 including shipping. All you have to do is comment or DM and I'll send you the invoice. Add a picky pad for $10 ☺️

All profits go towards free group therapy spots for neurodivergent folk in our community.

30/11/2025

I feel like Aunty Teresa (she/her) Light Hearted Awakenings doesn't need an introduction as a stall holder at our Clutter & Craft market this Friday because I'm always yapping on about her 😅

She has a room in my office and she'll be doing tarot readings and selling a large range of her pre-loved tarot cards (spurred on by me making her declutter like the minimalist I am).

The night Bindi randomly got sick, Teresa messaged me 20 minutes beforehand asking how Bindi was. I lost it because she's only asked about Bindi once before and that night she also ended up in hospital as well 😵‍💫 I knew Teresa had got some sense but honestly, I've thanked her so much since because it's so comforting and helpful having a lil pre-warning.

I could tell you the wildest stories about Teresa's intuition but I really feel like it's something you have to experience for yourself. And guess what? If it's not for you, it's not for you and that's so fine 💗

29/11/2025

Can I tell you the most iconic Bindi all gas no breaks story?

Firstly, I'm lowkey terrified of cattle dogs from growing up in the country and all the horrors I have faced on their behalf (ankle biting, scary as, savage always). I never intended to get a cattle dog ever. But life and RSPCA Dakabin and an under-developed early 20s frontal lobe had other plans.

Being chronically ill, I've always had to find interesting ways to "run" Bindi, as the working dog she is. So this day me and my bestie went to the tennis courts and played tennis with Bim. I thought I was so smart finally finding a way for her to chase the ball and run non stop. She LOVED that day. She was smiling so much and the only reason we stopped was because the humans got exhausted. Typical.

Anyway, walking back to the car I noticed Bim had developed a limp randomly. I checked in and she'd balled so hard she has torn the pad on her paw. The vets always commented on how tough she was because she would never show any sense of pain ever. And this day was the same because she bloody knew that if I knew she was injured, it would be game over 😅

So here's the pic of me carrying my baby angel to the car after she balled so hard. One of the things Bindi taught me is to go hard always. All in, always. But she was compassionate about it. She'd always let me throw a ball from bed down the hallway if that's where my energy was at, or the hammock. She just said get it done in the way that you can but get it done 👏

I just love that she always won. There was never an excuse that was good enough for Bindi. She would nag and nag and communicate and persevere until she got whatever she wanted. She always used to feign sickness when my sister's babysat her and then they'd end up feeding her chicken nuggets against my rules and singing made up songs about her to her to cheer her up. I'd be so mad that she manipulated them again and had put on a kilo while I was gone. But I was never mad at her. You gotta give it to a girlypop who always knows how to get what she wants. She's my idol and my inspo 🥰

She taught my relentless perseverance. And I use that everyday in my social work practice and life.

29/11/2025

Have you seen this ads? I've been reflecting on them a lot and I guess the first thing I want to acknowledge is how triggering it can be to see a woman with visible facial injuries from being assaulted. I'm wondering if the organisers consulted women with lived experience of domestic violence, trauma informed professionals, advocates etc before they made this campaign? I'd love to hear the logic because every time I drive past I feel sick. Also, I hope it doesn't perpetuate the myth that physical violence is the only type of violence. I'd love your thoughts because there's not many thoughts happening, but a lot of emotional flooding and flashbacks, every time I have to drive past these ☠️ is it the same for you?

29/11/2025

Meet Andy (she/her) who is a key part of our market stall project and all round great human!

Andy is currently studying a diploma to become a peer support worker. She's also spent part of this year presenting workshops with me on lived experience of suicidal ideation and self harm and how families/supports/professionals can respond in an effective way that centres autonomy, connection, and identity.

Oh, she's also a wildly talented artist who has been featured in local exhibitions and sells her artworks at our stalls. If you are wanting a piece and don't live locally, DM me and I'll organise for Andy to send it to you.

Otherwise, come and grab an artwork for yourself or someone you care about this Friday at our markets, 4-6pm, https://facebook.com/events/s/clutter-craft-social-enterpris/1340579907511959

I always tell everyone that I'll allow you to steal her but only for $. If you want a workshop or a lived experience consult, hit her up but I'll make sure she's paid what she's worth 😇

28/11/2025

Despite it all, I went to work today. Or should I say I sought solace in my community and connection to others today?

I shared what had happened with Bim and some of us cried, shared memories, and some of us had a nap ft snoring and all!

We ate cake, sat around the community table, and laughed a whole lot too.

I really think that the core of grief is love + living. I'm not going to stop that and it was one of my humans birthdays so I've gotta make a cooked birthday cake as an expression of love and care! What an honour it is to live and love today, honestly 🥰

Life do be a lot of suffering but I'm committed to suffering well + suffering in the right direction. I feel like that's the essence of my social work practice too. Probably can't fix anything because life is hard but I can sit with you in the hard and offer you a good ol "this is the sh*ttest thing ever" + presence, which is all I needed today as well.